With the Giro going along and some smaller stage races the scores have been significantly higher than they were past week (which isn't very difficult). Having led the Green Jersey competitiona and the overall for a while now, LightBing still has everything firmly under control.

Eric10 has the golden Mitchelton duo dominating the Giro, with Chaves and Yates. However, unlike in the Giro, Chaves and Yates can be in several teams in our game and while Eric10 takes the lead, zlev11 and AlyKapan who are sporting the same duo aren't far behind. AupaPyama does not have Yates, but he has Timothy Dupont, who scored 97 points in Dunkerque. Londonpat, also missing Yates, has Gougeard to place him in this week's top 5.

Not a huge amount of movement this week. AupaPyama and zlev11 share the top spot, and Eric10, being the highest scorer of the week, unsurprisingly also makes the top 5. the asian keeps up his good run and Geraint Too Fast having Javier Moreno, Taaramäe and unique pick Evrard with 29 points completes the top 5.

LightBing still green as a frog. Behind him things are very close with Eric10 and Squire sharing the 2nd place and five points behind them Kryvo and Wallenquist are only one point apart. While LightBing has been giving the green Light for a while, nobody seems to be putting their foot on the gas quite yet.

Here LightBing has been shining his light over the competition as well. Squire has entered the top 10, while Gigs has just barely dropped out of it. Meanwhile ruvu75 has swapped places with trackstand for the podium. As far as the current top 10 and the looming Giro GC points are concerned; Chaves, Lopez and Formolo are extremely common, with only scrooll07 missing Superman and only Eyeballs Out missing Formolo. However scrooll07 has Carapaz, which might to some extent make up for missing Superman. Squire might be looking best not missing any of the common picks likely to score significant GC points, while also having rare pick Woods. Finally, the fabled Phoenix rising from the fat might end up helping Eyeballs Out, Wallenquist, GP Blanco and Squire who have all picked Betancur. If I were LightBing and co I'd get on a plane to Italy ASAP and offer Carlos some of the Bandeja Paisa he's been missing in Europe.

Nobody for the GC. Eiking went for altitude training instead of the Norwegian races which I sort of picked him for. Let's hope that pays off later. Intxausti makes his comeback here. Will be interesting to see if I made the right decision by ignoring him.

Tour de l'Ain (2.1)TAARAMÄE Rein

Hopefully Taaramäe can continue his renaissance in this weak climbing field.

Grote Prijs Marcel Kint (1.1)BOL Cees

The cesspool has been in absolutely stellar form lately. Let's hope he can bring that form to his first .1 race of the season, and finally get some real points.

Gigs_98 wrote:So, let's take a look at where my gc contenders for this giro currently are:Chaves, Lopez, Formolo, Brambilla...well...ouch

I also have all of them, along with other such underperforming riders as Pantano, Gesink, Reichenbach, and Sbaragli. This Giro is pretty much a three-week display of the failure of my game strategy this year. At least Formolo looks to be riding well, despite his loss of time on Etna.

Gigs_98 wrote:So, let's take a look at where my gc contenders for this giro currently are:Chaves, Lopez, Formolo, Brambilla...well...ouch

I also have all of them, along with other such underperforming riders as Pantano, Gesink, Reichenbach, and Sbaragli. This Giro is pretty much a three-week display of the failure of my game strategy this year. At least Formolo looks to be riding well, despite his loss of time on Etna.

And I have Carapaz and Betancur to compensate a bit.

Add me to the list of a nice failure when it comes to riders for the Giro.

Brambilla, Betancur (who would have expected), apparently Schachmann, and Formolo

I have the same as well. and also Kangert has lost time.Lopez still has a chance (on paper) to score good points but it looks like I might need to rely on Oomen and Betancur for relatively rare GC points.

at least Chaves and Lopez are popular picks so loads of people are in the same boat.

not much better on the sprinting side of things, Guardini out early doors and van Poppel has not done a huge amount.

Gigs_98 wrote:So, let's take a look at where my gc contenders for this giro currently are:Chaves, Lopez, Formolo, Brambilla...well...ouch

I also have all of them, along with other such underperforming riders as Pantano, Gesink, Reichenbach, and Sbaragli. This Giro is pretty much a three-week display of the failure of my game strategy this year. At least Formolo looks to be riding well, despite his loss of time on Etna.

And I have Carapaz and Betancur to compensate a bit.

Add me to the list of a nice failure when it comes to riders for the Giro.

Brambilla, Betancur (who would have expected), apparently Schachmann, and Formolo

A bit hard on Schachmann, it's his first GT and he's already shown this year his talent for the future.

Thanks for the update as well! Although I've fallen downhill this year and am not expecting much from the Giro.

Gigs_98 wrote:So, let's take a look at where my gc contenders for this giro currently are:Chaves, Lopez, Formolo, Brambilla...well...ouch

I also have all of them, along with other such underperforming riders as Pantano, Gesink, Reichenbach, and Sbaragli. This Giro is pretty much a three-week display of the failure of my game strategy this year. At least Formolo looks to be riding well, despite his loss of time on Etna.

And I have Carapaz and Betancur to compensate a bit.

Add me to the list of a nice failure when it comes to riders for the Giro.

Brambilla, Betancur (who would have expected), apparently Schachmann, and Formolo

A bit hard on Schachmann, it's his first GT and he's already shown this year his talent for the future.

Thanks for the update as well! Although I've fallen downhill this year and am not expecting much from the Giro.

Actually no not hard on him, hence the reason I put apparently because he's one of my top preferming GC riders. Who knew that was going to be the case. I'm more surprised he's doing that well. I didn't know he was riding for GC.

Hey all! Nice to see the game is progressing and thanks to Maaaaaaarten for doing the updates this month (I sent the instructions right at the end of April without checking the thread to see that EITB had sent them already; thanks for that too). Just want to say that I still need someone to do updates for June, as well as July. So please PM me if you are interested!

Haven't had much of a chance to check in on my team in terms of the standings, but it's good to see signs that McNulty is the real deal; can't wait to see what he can do the rest of the season. Sivakov is being worked into Sky's rotation as well, and I'm willing to bet that by the late season he's getting a few chances of his own. Too bad to see my only unique pick Vendrame not stay away on that Giro break even though he was the strongest. And I lost Guardini and Kangert already, Chaves tumbled down the classification (which affects pretty much everyone equally), and DvP has had a couple of results but not as much as I might hope against this weak sprint field. Oomen is about where I would think he would be, although I'd love him to climb a few more spots - let's see how he handles his first experience with a third week. All in all, I'm happy with this non-Valverde period for the team so far.

Whoa I just looked at my team and realized that only one of my 22 highest-cost riders is in profit, and that's Coquard. I guess Valverde and a few more expensive guys that have over 2/3 of their return (Lopez, Mas, Latour, DvP, Roelandts) is enough for top 40 for now. Which is to say - holy Valverde is good, I forgot that, being away from the game for a minute or two there.

skidmark wrote:Whoa I just looked at my team and realized that only one of my 22 highest-cost riders is in profit, and that's Coquard. I guess Valverde and a few more expensive guys that have over 2/3 of their return (Lopez, Mas, Latour, DvP, Roelandts) is enough for top 40 for now. Which is to say - holy Valverde is good, I forgot that, being away from the game for a minute or two there.

Remember I don't think anyone expected Valverde to be in the profit numbers of points until we get into the Tour. As he had a career spring last year and raced the Duaphine and National Championships.